OK, one of the rules of Disney Channel Musical month when I was pre-planning it was that it was one entry per franchise. But one of the movies that’s listed as a musical on google I’ve skimmed through and decided it doesn’t count as one. And rather than watch the Cheetah Girls movie, I’ve decided to throw the rules in the trash and do Descendants 2.
Why Descendants 2 and not Zombies 2 or Camp Rock 2? Because
I actually like this one and goddamn it, I need a break from the crap. We’ve got a few new
talents, China Anne McLain is in this one, she was the lead
protagonist in the show ANT Farm, where she was a musical prodigy, which bodes
well. Thomas Doherty had at the time been doing another Disney show called the
Lodge, which also had musical elements. Dylan Playfair is also a major
addition, he was in a show called Some Assembly Required, a sitcom that whilst
funny often suffered from having too many comic relief idiots. He played one of
them, Knox, probably the dumbest but nicest of them.
I guess I should mention the main cast too. Cameron Boyce
(RIP) was in the sitcom Jessie and he was an uncomfortably creepy child in that
show. Dove Cameron got the special Guest Star accreditation in Austin and Ally
but had been the star of her own Disney Channel show Liv and Maddie, she played
both of them.
Sofia Carson had been in an episode of Austin and Ally as well but this was her first major role in television. Bobboo Stewart had the most experiences, he was in 3 of the 4 Twilight Films, played Warpath in X-men: Days of Future Past, the last good X-men film, but no major Disney Channel appearances [he would later be one of the villains in Lab Rats: Elite Force but we don't talk about that here]. Mitchell Hope had been in a couple of shows in 2012 and I hear was on the verge of giving up acting entirely before landing this role.
With all that completely necessary preamble out of the way,
let’s take a critical look at Descendants 2.
